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<br />- Providing substantial technical support in the development and refinement of a <br />comprehensive hydrology model to allow realistic, supportable projections of <br />future water uses in the basin; <br /> <br />- Continue to optimize the operating rules for Navajo Dam to provide more <br />efficient fulfillment of the flow recommendations necessary for endangered <br />specIes recovery; <br /> <br />- Implement an adaptive management program associated with the operation of <br />Navajo Reservoir to evaluate biologic responses to a normative hydro graph <br /> <br />. Operate the Durango Pumping Plant to limit pumping during dry years, allowing more <br />water to be available in Navajo Reservoir to meet project demands. <br /> <br />. Reclamation will work with the Navajo Nation and the Jicarilla Apache Tribe to combine <br />resources in evaluating options for proceeding with the Navajo-Gallup Project, the <br />Navajo River Water Development Plan, and restoration of the Hogback Project to <br />minimize the likelihood that any single Tribe bears a disproportionate burden for the <br />conservation of listed species under the ESA. <br /> <br />. Facilitate discussions among the parties with interests in the San Juan River Basin. <br />Interested parties will include, but not be limited to, the Colorado Ute Tribes, Navajo <br />Nation, Jicarilla Apache Tribe, the Fish & Wildlife Service, and private parties with <br />existing contracts from Navajo Reservoir. Discussions will aim to develop options for <br />obtaining adequate water for the Navajo Nation and Jicarilla Apache Tribe future needs. <br /> <br />. Reclamation will initiate an independent review of the hydrologic model to ensure its <br />accuracy and value as a tool in future water planning activities. <br /> <br />. Reclamation, through its Native American Affairs and technical assistance programs, will <br />work with the Jicarilla Apache Tribe to facilitate its ability to independently utilize the <br />San Juan River basin hydrologic model to ensure more effective participation in the <br />SJRBRIP and other appropriate uses. <br /> <br />. Through its appraisal investigation of the Navajo-Gallup Project, Reclamation will <br />evaluate: <br /> <br />- An alternate project design that would take water from the San Juan River below <br />its confluence with the Animas River which may increase the potential yield for the <br />project while protecting flows for endangered fish. In this case, releases from Navajo <br /> <br />13 <br />